Cigar and cigarette holder.



No. 800,496. PATBNTED SEPT. 26, 1905'. J. SHARMAN. CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDER.

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JOHN SHARMAN, OF COALVILLE, ENGLAND.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed December 12, 1904. Serial No. 236,531.

To all whom it away concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN SHARMAN, railway clerk, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Oak Cottage, Park Road, Goalville, in the county of Leicester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar and Cigarette Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in connection with cigar and cigarette holders, and has for its object to provide means for securing the cigar or cigarette firmly in position, while at the same time enablingit to be entirely smoked through. For this purpose 1 provide the mouth or open end of the cigar or cigarette tube or holder with a cap or cover, to the center of which is fixed a small coiled or spiral wire extending horizontally a short distance from the said cap or cover. This coiled or spiral wire serves as a screw for screwing into the end of the cigar or cigarette, the said end bearing, when the wire has been fully screwed into it, against the cap or cover, which is perfectly curved or bulged outward, so as to compress the tobacco, and thus form a firm and secure seating for the cigar or cigarette. The cap or cover is perforated for the passage of the smoke through the holder and for the efficient drawing or smoking of the cigar or cigarette, and it may be secured to the holder in any desired manner, either by screwing or fitting it to a ferrule or band on the same or by stamping it and the said band in one piece and fixing it permanently to the holder, or otherwise.

In order to clearly understand my said invention, I will describe the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view, partly in section, of a cigarette-holder according to my invention, showing the cigarette in dotted lines attached thereto; and Fig. 2 is a front end view of the same.

a is the cigarette tube or holder of ordinary construction, and 5 is the cap or cover fitted to the mouth or front end of the same.

a is the coiled or spiral wire forming the screw, fixed by soldering or otherwise to the center of the cap or cover. The latter is perfectly curved or bulged outward, so as to compress the tobacco in the end of the cigarette when the latter is screwed up against said cap or cover, and the latter may be constructed with a raised rim 6, thus forming a firm and secure seating or connection between the cigarette and the holder.

Y 6 represents the small holes or perforations in the cap or cover to permit of the passage of the smoke from the cigarette to and through the holder.

By means of my invention the cigarette can be readily fixed to the holder by slightly pressing and screwing the coiled or spiral wire 0 into its end until the latter is close up against the cap, when it is ready for use and may be smoked, if desired, from end to end,being held in place until the last particle has burned away without in any way damaging the holder.

The cap 6 may be fixed to the holder by means of the rim or beading Z), soldered or screwed to the ferrule or bandf or in any other suitable manner, such as by stamping the cap in-one piece with the latter and fixing the same to the holder, and the screw or spiral c is soldered or otherwise fixed to the center of the cap. This invention may also be adapted in a similar manner to holders for cigars.

Having now fully described the nature of my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved means for holding cigarettes or cigars when smoking consisting of a coiled or spiral wire or screw fixed to the center of a cap or cover of curved or bulged shape and provided with perforations and a raised rim, the said cap or cover being fitted to the outer end of a cigarette or cigar tube or holder, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN SHARMAN.

WVitnesses SAML. SKELHAM, FRANK GODDARD. 

